ELA+Kindergarten+Lesson+9

Topic: Wheels

Common Core Standards: RL.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RF.K.1d---Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet. RF.K.3a---Demonstrate a basic knowledge of one-to-one correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. W.K.2---Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing and supply some information about the topic.

SL.K.2--- Confirm understanding of text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details an requesting clarification if something is not understood. L.K.1a---Print many upper and lowercase letters. L.K.2c---Write la letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).

Suggested Student Objectives:
 * Identify words that begin with /p/.
 * Learn that letter Pp stands for /p/.
 * Write letter Pp.
 * Build background for "What Do Wheels Do All Day?"
 * Identify text and graphic features in a book.
 * Identify rhyming words.

Suggested Additional Readings: Double Those Wheels by Nancy Raines Day Tools and Wheels by Venice Shone The Wheels on the Bus by Mandy Foot Look & See: Wheels That Go by La Coccinella The Spooky Wheels on the Bus by J. Elizabeth Mills In the City (Wheels at Work) by Don Silby In the Country (Wheels at Work) by Don Silby

Resource Links: [|Count the Wheels] [|Wheels on the Bus Activities] [|Color Wheel Activity] [|Transportation Activities] [|Wheels on the Bus Video]

Activities: 1. Tell children that people who study the history of wheels say they were invented 5,500 years ago. Researchers know this because they have dug up pots with pictures of wheels on them from that time. Ask children to look around the classroom. Write on the board everything they see that has a wheel. Then ask them to name objects with wheels that are outside of the classroom. Have children draw pictures of objects with wheels.

2. Make a ramp with blocks or similar. Try rolling some different items down the incline. Try other blocks, toys with wheels, dolls, rolls of tape, books, balls. Which items seem to go faster and easier?

3. Go on a wheel hunt! Let’s get our trusty magnifying glasses (or clipboards and pencils) and search for big wheels and little wheels throughout the house or school. (Toys, kitchen and garage tools, toy wagons etc, also anything with visible gears such as music boxes, clocks etc)

4. Use wheel shaped pasta to make a collage. Older children can draw vehicles with the pasta attached as wheels.

5. Read with "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus." Bus driver, bus driver, may I have a ride? (//Hold up fist and wiggle thumb.//) Yes, yes, please step inside. (//Hold up other fist and wiggle thumb.//) Put in some money. (//Bend down first thumb.//) Step on the gas. (//Bend down other thumb.//) Chug-a-way, chug-a-way, (//Pretend to steer bus.//) But not too fast.
 * Bus Driver, Bus Driver **

6. ** Personalized License Plate ** Encourage your child to create a personalized license plate from of a shoe box lid. The license plate can have random numbers and/or letters or be personalized with your child’s name or a cute or funny saying. Your child could also use number and/or letter sponges and paint to make prints on the shoe box lid (They could also cut large numbers and/or letters out of magazines and glue them to the shoe box lid.). For fun, attach the license plate to a riding toy.

7. Use flashcards to review the numbers that are currently being learned. On chalkboard, write the matching number words in mixed order. Hand out a "steering wheel" ( 9' Styrofoam plate), to each child. As the children answer correctly, he or she will "drive" up to the board and point to the correct number word.

Assessments: Name an object that has wheels and label it.

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